Nuclear Weapons Quotes - Page 22

• If ants had nuclear weapons, they would probably end the world in a week.

  Bert Holldobler

  Nuclear, World, Weapons

  Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson (1994). “Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration”, Belknap Press

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• Yes, I think lots of people are eager to obtain weapons of mass destruction. But there's no evidence that he has weapons of mass destruction. There's been no evidence of him testing nuclear weapons.
  
  We have people that are in our face with nuclear weapons. We've got Iran and North Korea. We've got a problem with Pakistan. You know, I don't know what to say about that.
  
  There's a whole lot of people that are going nuclear. And I think that Saddam Hussein is actually, with the evidence, the least able to use nuclear weapons and the least obvious offender in that area at this moment.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Thinking, Mass Destruction, Iran

  "Fox News Sunday" with Tony Snow, www.foxnews.com. February 24, 2003.

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• I would be saying to the Iranians, you either open those facilities, begin to dismantle them and make them available to inspectors or we will degrade those facilities though air strikes. And make it very public that we are doing that. Iran would not get a nuclear weapon under my watch.

  Rick Santorum

  Air, Iran, Watches

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• Hawks favor war on the grounds that Saddam Hussein is reckless, tyrannical and instinctively aggressive, and that if he comes into possession of nuclear weapons in addition to the weapons of mass destruction he already has, he is likely to use them or share them with terrorists. The threat of mass death on a scale never before seen residing in the hands of an unstable madman is intolerable – and must be preempted.

  Charles Krauthammer

  War, Mass Destruction, Hands

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• Gore said foreigners are not worried about 'what the terrorist networks are going to do, but about what we're going to do.' Good. They should be worried. They hate us? We hate them. Americans don't want to make Islamic fanatics love us. We want to make them die. There's nothing like horrendous physical pain to quell anger. Japanese Kamikazes pilots hated us once, too. A couple of well-aimed nuclear weapons got their attention. Now they are gentle little lambs.

  Ann Coulter

  Couple, Pain, Hate

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.269, Crown Forum

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• Now we're living in a nuclear age, and the science that was supposed to be automatically for human welfare has become a nuclear - a science that gives us nuclear weapons. This is the ironic character of human history, and of human existence, which I can only explain, if I say so, in Biblical terms. Now I don't mean by this reason that I will accept every interpretation of Christianity that's derived from the Bible as many people wouldn't accept my interpretation. But that's what it means for me.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Character, Mean, Biblical

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• I think that Iran with a nuclear weapon is extremely destabilizing. I think it could precipitate a nuclear arms race in the region.

  Robert M. Gates

  Thinking, Iran, Race

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• It is the earnest hope of our people that the world may see the day when all nuclear weapons are abolished.

  Eisaku Sato

  People, Nuclear, World

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• It's very certain that North Korea is developing nuclear weapons for offensive purposes. They don't need nuclear weapons to defend their own country.

  Kim Young-sam

  Country, Korea, Needs

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• As citizen-activists the world over merge, they can become an irresistible force to create peace and protect the planet. From here will come a new movement to abolish nuclear weapons and all weapons of mass destruction. From here will come the demand for sustainable communities, for new systems of energy, transportation and commerce. From here comes the future rushing in on us. How does one acquire the capacity for active citizenship? The opportunities exist every day...Active citizenship begins with an envisioning of the desired outcome and a conscious application of spiritual principles.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Spiritual, Opportunity, Rushing

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• During World War II, the Nazis put their victims into gas chambers and then incinerated them in ovens. While the Nazis took their victims to the incinerators, those who possess and threaten to use nuclear weapons plan to take these weapons - these portable incinerators - to the victims.

  David Krieger

  War, Nuclear, Use

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• And I thought about the psychic numbing involved in strategic projections of using hydrogen bombs or nuclear weapons of any kind. And I also thought about ways in which all of us undergo what could be called the numbing of everyday life.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Psychics, Hydrogen Bomb, Everyday

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• We have to deal with this new type of threat in a way we haven’t yet defined. . . . With a low-probability, high-impact event like this . . . If there’s a one percent chance that Pakistani scientists are helping al Qaeda build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response.

  Dick Cheney

  Impact, Events, Nuclear

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• Our enemy is Al Qaeda and its allies, people who have publicly said they wish to attack the United States again, people who have publicly called on nuclear physicists and engineers to help them gain access to nuclear weapons, which, as the whole world knows, Pakistan has.

  Richard Holbrooke

  People, Enemy, Wish

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• If we are really anxious not to have nuclear weapons in Iran, the first thing is to call an international conference on abolishing all nuclear weapons, including Israeli nuclear weapons.

  Bruce Kent

  Iran, Nuclear, Weapons

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• The other countries did not share the same concern the United States had in the early '90's - that North Korea actually had an ongoing nuclear weapons program.

  Mitchell Reiss

  Country, Korea, United States

  "Interview with State Department Policy Planning Director Mitchell Reiss". Interview with Paul Kerr and Miles Pomper, www.armscontrol.org. April 9, 2004.

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• The nexus between terrorism and nuclear weapons, or even nuclear material, is obviously a current concern.

  Mitchell Reiss

  Nuclear, Weapons, Terrorism

  "Interview with State Department Policy Planning Director Mitchell Reiss". Interview with Paul Kerr and Miles Pomper, www.armscontrol.org. April 9, 2004.

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• The single greatest problem the world has is nuclear armament, nuclear weapons, not global warming.

  Donald Trump

  World, Weapons, Nuclear

  First 2016 Presidential Debate Between Trump, Clinton, www.nbcnews.com. September 27, 2016.

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• The worst part of what we heard Donald [trump] say has been about nuclear weapons. He has said repeatedly that he didn't care if other nations got nuclear weapons, Japan, South Korea, even Saudi Arabia. It has been the policy of the United States, Democrats and Republicans, to do everything we could to reduce the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

  Hillary Clinton

  Japan, Korea, Arabia

  Source: time.com

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• In fact, [Donald's Trump] cavalier attitude about nuclear weapons is so deeply troubling.

  Hillary Clinton

  Attitude, Weapons, Facts

  Source: time.com

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• I just want to give a lot of things - and just to respond. I agree with [Hillary Clinton] on one thing. The single greatest problem the world has is nuclear armament, nuclear weapons, not global warming, like you think and your - your president thinks.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, Giving, President

  Donald Trump's speech at the first 2016 Trump-Clinton presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, moderated by anchor of NBC Nightly News Lester Holt, www.nbcnews.com. September 26, 2016.

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• Right now we have a $600-billion or so Defense Department budget, but when you add in, for example, a trillion-dollar nuclear weapons program over the next decade or two, it adds significantly to it. So it's somewhere around $600 billion. We call for approximately cutting that in half and instead putting those dollars into true security here at home.

  Jill Stein

  Home, Cutting, Two

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• It doesn't seem to be that huge a commitment that would create, you know, some kind of really powerful constituency. But the history has been for the United States and Russia especially that nuclear weapons have kind of become part of the identity of the countries.

  John Burroughs

  Country, Powerful, Commitment

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• Somewhat by historical happenstance the five permanent members of the UN Security Council - United States, Britain, France, Russia, and China - also were the original five countries to have nuclear weapons.

  John Burroughs

  Country, Russia, Historical

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• Especially in the case of India and Pakistan, it's very clear that significant parts of the elites in both countries view having nuclear weapons as a ticket to prestige.

  John Burroughs

  Country, Views, India And Pakistan

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